Nikolai demidenko biography for kids
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Nikolai Demidenko facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Nikolai Demidenko | |
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| Born | (1955-07-01) 1 July 1955 (age 69) Anisimovo, Russian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
Nikolai Demidenko (born 1 July 1955, Anisimovo) is a Russian-born classical pianist.
Biography
Demidenko studied at the Gnessin State Musical College with Anna Kantor and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Dmitri Bashkirov. He was a finalist at the 1976 Montreal International Piano Competition and the 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition. He taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK, where he has been a resident since 1990. He was granted British citizenship in 1995 and currently holds a visiting professorship at the University of Surrey. In addition to a vast amount of the standard Germanic and Russian repertory, he is a specialist of Frédéric Chopin and a noted champion of the works of neglected composers such as Muzio Clementi, Carl Maria von Weber, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Nikolai Medtner, as well as neglected works of well-known composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann, and transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni. Demidenko won a Gramophone Award in 1992 in the concerto category for
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Nikolai Demidenko
Musical artist
Nikolai Demidenko (born 1 July 1955, Anisimovo) is a Russian-born typical pianist.
Biography
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Career
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Program: Margaret Throsby interviews Nikolai Demidenko
Nikolai Demidenko grew up in Russia, in a small town called Anisimovo and began playing piano before he was five years old. No one else in his family was musical but he took to it naturally, playing on his grandfather's old upright piano. Soon he attended the Gnessin State Musical College and then studied at the Moscow Conservatoire. By 1976, at age 21, he had reached the finals of both the 1976 Montreal competition and the 1978 Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow – and with these achievements he'd made a name for himself in the musical world.
He left Russia and travelled to the West in 1985, becoming a resident of England in 1990. He taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK and was granted British citizenship in 1995.
In 2016 he was the Queensland Symphony Orchestra's soloist in residence.
He's a Chopin specialist and is renowned for his authoritative performances of the Russian concerto repertoire. Separate to his life as a concert pianist he also loves to drive and rebuild fast cars and has been known to take them apart with his own hands. Margaret Throsby recorded this interview in February 1998.
On seeing a performance of his hero Horowitz
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